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TIL: MLB umpires are required by rule to wear only black underwear in the event that they split their pants.

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BGvb TIL that James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in “Babe”, became an ethical vegan and vocal opponent of the unethical treatment of pigs because of the movie.
ep7BJ TIL about Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick, the first woman to parachute from an airplane and the first person to manually deploy a parachute after a malfunction.
YpNKB TIL over $200 million in gold and silver bullion was recovered from underneath WTC-4 following the September 11th attacks.
MeP4V TIL in 1956 Marija Gimbutas postulated the "Kurgan hypothesis" - that the source of Indo-European languages across Eurasia were the Steppe cultures of the Pontic steppe who first domesticated horses and invented the wheel. In recent years, ancient DNA studies seem to have proven her theory correct.
j70R TIL that during the newyork draft riots of 1863, the New York Times defended their building using Gatling guns against the rioters.